The Morgan Wallen smash “Last Night” continued its dominance of performing rights organizations’ awards, as the tune was named song of the year at the 72nd annual BMI Country Awards, held Tuesday night at the org’s headquarters in Nashville. BMI’s most played song of the year was co-penned by BMI writers John Byron and Charlie Handsome.
Songwriter of the year honors found Chase McGill and Zach Bryan in a tie, with each each songwriter co-writing six of BMI’s most-performed songs in the field. Bryan’s half-dozen songs were all tunes he recorded himself: Bryan serves as a writer behind “Burn, Burn, Burn,” “Dawns,” “Hey Driver,” “I Remember Everything,” “Oklahoma Smokeshow” and “Sun to
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